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Date Posted: 04:47:45 08/04/07 Sat
Author: Prometheus Jones
Subject: Re: Zeitgeist
In reply to: Organ Morgan 's message, "Re: Zeitgeist" on 03:45:24 08/04/07 Sat

>>In fact what amazes me is that
>>everytime I figure something out on my own, I find
>>some material shortly afterwards (book, mag article or
>>documentary) that confirms my ideas. Very strange
>>indeed.

Not strange at all, Tom. It's why humans can believe things at all.

From Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson:

"As Dr. Leonard Orr has noted, the human mind behaves as if it were divided into two parts, the Thinker and the Prover.

The Thinker can think about virtually anything. History shows that it can think the earth is suspended on the backs of infinite turtles or that the Earth is hollow, or that the earth is floating in space (millions of people believe that, including the present author). Comparative religion and philosophy show that the Thinker can regard itself as immortal, as both mortal and immortal (the reincarnation model) or even as non-existent (Buddhism). It can think itself into living in a Christian universe, a scientific-relativistic universe, or a Nazi universe � among many possibilities.

As psychiatrists and psychologists have often observed [�] the Thinker can think itself sick, and can even think itself well again.

The Prover is a much simpler mechanism. It operates on one law only: Whatever the Thinker thinks, the Prover proves.

To cite a notorious example which unleashed incredible horrors [�], if the Thinker thinks that all Jews are rich, the Prover will prove it. It will find evidence that the poorest Jew in the most run-down ghetto has hidden money somewhere [�].

If the Thinker thinks that the sun moves around the earth, the Prover will obligingly organise all perceptions to fit that thought; if the Thinker changes its mind and decides the earth moves around the sun, the Prover will reorganise the evidence.

If the Thinker thinks �holy water� from Lourdes will cure its lumbago, the Prover will skilfully orchestrate all signals from the glands, muscles, organs etc. until they have organised themselves into good health again."

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Replies:

Re: Zeitgeist -- Johnny Reb, 06:29:53 08/04/07 Sat
- Re: Zeitgeist -- Organ Morgan, 07:31:18 08/04/07 Sat
  - Re: Zeitgeist -- Nobody Jones, 11:55:19 08/04/07 Sat
    - Re: Zeitgeist -- Michael, 16:03:46 08/04/07 Sat